Here you go- https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5262967.0

I also taught of that after creating this thread. However, the purpose of this new thread is to give a chance to members especially the new members who recently joined our community and haven't shared their experiences before.
If you haven't participated in the previous discussion, I would love to hear your unique Bitcoin journey. It's an opportunity to bring fresh perspectives and insights to the conversation.

Feel free to share your story here, and let's create an inclusive space where everyone can contribute

Nice post @Hatchy firstly my knowledge of Bitcoin was first sparked by a viral transaction I saw on a social media interview  with the guy who swapped 10000 Bitcoins for just two pizza It wasn't much of a big deal to me at first because I really didn't know what Bitcoin was worth  but still in the video there was this exclamation on the interviewers face the prompted me to go online in search of what Bitcoin was after which I found Bitcoin talk through the post that was used for the Bitcoin transaction.

I am not much of a Bitcoin investor but the main lesson this forum has taught me is that as a Bitcoin investor or holder one should have this faith and patience with Bitcoin

And my advice  to newbies like me is to always try as much as possible to learn from every post you come across on Bitcoin talk instead of trying to teach others rather learn and gather experience as you rank up

1. The ability of an investor to earn from it. I mean for sure, there are some here who are just interested in Bitcoin because of the fact that they can earn from it. I'm one of them, but as I learn Bitcoin more, I realized that it's more than just an asset where you can earn money from it.

2. Sharing what I know here increased my own knowledge because I believe that in order for me to share something here, I need to continuously learn something that's related to Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency in general. Well, I also learned many things since joining here in the forum as well, but aside from that, I also learned outside of the forum thru different videos online.

3. Learn, research, watch, read. Those are just 4 of the things a newcomer must do when they want to start their crypto journey. TBH, I did all 4 of them, but I'm watching more than reading because I'm more of a watch guy than a read guy. I learned more from watching videos, did some research at first, and read various threads here.

4. Memorable experience here in the forum? None I guess because I'm not interacting that much with people here. Yes I reply to some of their opinions, and posts here, but to interact like sharing some personal life etc. I haven't encounter one, and I think it will stay at that. Outside Bitcointalk, I heard many negative things already from the people that I know personally. Things like it will go down to X price, or it will not rise up anymore, or Bitcoin's a scam. Now they're the ones who are crying in different Facebook pages, feeling disappointed on themselves because of wrong beliefs with regards to Bitcoin.

5. Many. Bitcoin is the reason why I'm investing into different assets right now. Bitcoin is like the eye-opener for me into different assets like the Stock Market. At the same time, Bitcoin is providing me some additional income as well, and additional money to be used for investing into other assets.

I think that this topic best fits in bitcoin discussion board, alternatively in the beginners and help board and not meta. But I will have to respond, even if the thread is moved, no issues.

Nothing much sparked my interest in bitcoin rather than people were investing and their investments were doubling and tripling.

Very rapid. Bitcointalk is an embodiment of information and knowledge. The most important thing is that I have learnt the basic things of bitcoin that will keep me going and I have also learnt to identify scam and not to fall for them.

Yes, I will advise them to learn and learn first, later they will earn at ease.

Nothing special.

Very much but this forum has helped me more than bitcoin itself did.

When I first started my journey way back in 2017, I pretty knew nothing much about BTC. I just discovered this forum when my friend told me the opportunities of earning money online while enjoying the convenience of doing it on my personal and free time.


My knowledge and understanding about cryptocurrencies (BTC) had grown extensively. Before, I used to be this guy who was just focusing on earning but when I understood the potential of applying cryptocurrencies as alternative payments, my curiosity filled with excitement. I will not say that I am somewhat of a pro- but at least I have a good grasp on the fundamentals of it.


INVEST! While others may contemplate the time on when to invest, I usually tell newcomers that the best time to invest is when you actually discovered the existence of BTC. The reason is simple- by basing it purely on the history of the price of BTC, you would see a pattern/trend where its price continually increases (while occasionally decreases) on the market.


Probably one the memorable experience was when I attended this conference in our country when USI-TECH visited. I was not aware of the existence of these so-called "ponzi-schemes" so my young-self got influenced easily and lost a bunch of BTCs worth $100.

This experience really taught me the valuable lesson of being aware. This also inspired me to become a person who advocates in providing a clean and scam-free forum.


The journey of acceptance of BTC had come a long way. When it was first released, only a few believed and understood the potential of the system. This is also the reason on why at least majority of the users know the 10,000 BTC pizza story.

The help of BTC personally is greatly appreciated given the fact that earning through signature campaigns is one of the most efficient ways of earning money in my country. While the value of money is relative, as someone who is living in a third-world country, every dollar counts.

3.Do you have any advice for newcomers who are just starting their Bitcoin journey?


Acquire exactly 2.625 Bitcoins on the market. Neither more nor less.

1- I have a past that is not great with banks, not personally but everyone I know in my entire family is not great with money, even though they were always good earners and had high salaries, they were also careless about money and did stupid business ideas and failed after and after again with what they made from their good paying jobs. This resulted with banks (one might say rightfully so) constantly attacking us, and this made me angry at them no matter if they were right or not, because the "way" they did it made them wrong no matter how right they were, they can be cold and ruthless, nobody cares, its their job, but they can't be "angry", these are just workers for the bank, the money doesn't go into their pocket, it goes to shareholders, and yet in every bank, when it comes to collecting time, they sent some angry person, like what the fu- are you yelling at me for dude, you make minimum wage, stfu and do your job. Nobody questions why you are doing what you are doing, we had debt, we didn't pay, so you come to collect, that makes sense, but if you threaten me and yell at me, I will have a response that will get me to jail, so stfu and do your job. When I met bitcoin, that changed it all, at that moment I said from now on I am going to use this and will never have a single debt or money in any bank, and try to do that as much as I possibly can, always withdrawn all my money in cash, and never kept it in a bank longer than 24 hours if I can or just keep it in bitcoin for the rest.


2- Well whenever I had any questions I come here, you can't always know everything, and sometimes the response is written somewhere when you google it, but you do not understand it, so you come here, open up a topic about it, and ask what you want to ask. There will be at least a dozen people responding, possibly more. Plus we get to just chat and have fun too regarding crypto, its not always about learning, sometimes its just chatting with some friends about a hobby you have.

3- Do not start with buying silly meme stuff or shitcoins. Get bitcoin if you must, even avoid that and do not buy anything before you learn more about it if you could, but if you are in a rush then just get bitcoin alone, you can check the rest when you learn more about them later, but starting with bitcoin will save you a lot.

4- Not really, I mean I met with some great people in bitcoin world, they are great, I consider them as friends. But there isn't really a "moment", like its the sum of all the things that happened, not a single situation that made anything better.

5- I literally went from working in a hotel for 13 hours a day into a freelancer working at home for 8-10 hours a day without needing to go out of my home to work. The amount of improvement in my life is incredible, and I am even making more as well. So instead of making less money working 13 hours a day in a hotel, I make more money working 8-10 hours a day at the comfort of my home. I can't explain how much improvement that is, I would do this even if I was making less, its really that much better life. So I can say bitcoin made my life x100 better.